Samuel Balding Tullis and Bridget Cordelia Shea

Samuel Balding Tullis was born February 1854 in Tippecanoe
Co, Indiana, the youngest son of Jesse H. Tullis, Jr., and his first
wife, Lydia Ann Mintonye. Samuel and his older brother, George, appear
in the 1870 census in Danville, IL, with their mother, Lydia, and her
second husband, Charles Smith.

Samuel married Bridget Cordelia Shea on 25 February 1878
in Springfield, Illinois. She was a daughter of Thomas Shea and Molly
McMillen. She was born August 30, 1856, in Clinton, IL, and died December
27, 1930, in Tuscola, Douglas Co, IL. Unfortunately, there does not
appear to be a photo of Cordelia in the album, but Ann Tullis Nolan
(a great-grand-daughter) was able to provide a photo, as shown in the
next section.

Samuel and Cordelia had two children: Laura Jeanette Tullis
(born November 19, 1878) and George Wesley Tullis (born October 26,
1881). Laura Jeanette married Charles L. Derrickson on 25 January 1899
in Chester, IL. They had no children. She died 10 December 1944 in Dade
Co, FL, and is buried in Tuscola, IL. George Wesley Tullis married Nora
Caroline Bloom on May 22, 1907, in Hagerstown, MD. They had five children:
Nevin Montanye Tullis, Laura Jeanette Tullis, Anna Elizabeth Tullis,
Daisy Eloise Tullis, and Lorraine Eleanor Tullis. George died on 8 April
1958 in Hagerstown, MD.

Samuel worked as a conductor for the Wabash Railroad for
many years. He died on 18 June 1894 at the age of 40 in Decatur, Macon
Co, IL, and is buried there in Greenwood Cemetery.